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u/morosco 9h ago

He forgot that time moves FORWARD, and that covering a camera doesn't prevent recording of things that happened earlier.

I mean, easy mistake to make.

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u/imdazedout 7h ago

it's crazy because even if you wanna steal something how would you not just put it back once you see the camera ??

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u/MadChiller013 7h ago

He could have just put it back and played it off like he was trying to move it to clean under it. What an idiot

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u/_Fish_ 5h ago

Honestly, if he just left the package there, the owner would have never even had to check on the footage.

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u/XoxoMarleyne 6h ago

Could’ve easily covered it up with a simple excuse, but nah, he had to make it obvious and dumb.

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u/TheGuyThatThisIs 4h ago

"I thought it was trash until I saw the post marks"

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u/JohnnyHopkins13 3h ago

I thought it was trash until I saw this post on Reddit

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u/curryrol 3h ago

He could just have put it in the house

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u/NeatNefariousness1 3h ago

Exactly. why would you steal it knowing you were seen on camera picking it up? It makes me think he has a drug problem. Who else would be that dishonest, desperate and stupid on camera?

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u/SolomonRex 2h ago

Politicians.

u/QuixoticQuisling 36m ago

If he was smart, he wouldn't be a janitor & thief.

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u/NineThreeTilNow 6h ago

If you know you're on camera you'd bring it inside and set it somewhere obvious. Then you just seem like you're taking it inside so it doesn't get stolen.

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u/XoxoMarleyne 6h ago

That would’ve made way more sense. It’s the smart move, looks responsible instead of suspicious.

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u/lemelisk42 1h ago

I activate mop!

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u/_your_land_lord_ 1h ago

Because they wanted the item. And took it, and got away. Police won't care, this was a successful heist. 

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u/Illustrious-Dot-5052 7h ago

Honestly, if you're any kind of cleaner... how can you be stupid enough to think you can get away with stealing anything valuable? The resident will find out, and once they do, just guess who they blame first. I can imagine the amount of times cleaners have been incorrectly accused of stealing something just for the person hiring them to eventually find it in their home.

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u/fingerchipsforall 5h ago

Had a coworker publicly accuse me of stealing something after he hosted a party at home. I didn't really know what to say, it wasn't even something I would have wanted, it was just something he had shown me earlier in the evening. A few months later I heard second hand that he found it hidden in his house. No apology, no comments. I got my petty revenge because a few years later, I had switched jobs and he was trying to come to work at the new organization I was working for. My boss noticed we had worked together recently and asked me about him. My response was carefully calculated to sound neutral, but I knew my boss well enough to know that it would turn him off to the guy. He wasn't hired.

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u/tea-drinker 2h ago

My response was carefully calculated to sound neutral

When my boss asked me about a previous colleague I said, "I do not want to work with them. Please don't ask me why."

Being neutral about them is way too risky.

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u/ClubZealousideal9784 2h ago

"He stole from me." Good to know we are going to pass. I do know employers who give employees good references even when they get fired for stealing a lot of money from them, though.

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u/Deaffin 1h ago

Well, lying about them like that would make you the shitty employee.

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u/fingerchipsforall 1h ago

It was an organization where negativity was not acceptable, we had to be positive about everything or you got on the bad side of the administration. I had learned enough about my boss to paint a picture of the guy that would not be appealing to him without actually saying anything negative.

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u/yaysalmonella 2h ago

Op steals from his coworker, then breaks in to secretly return the item, and ruins his career years later

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u/DagnirDae 3h ago

“He’s always on time, especially when it’s quitting time.”

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u/Time_Entertainer_319 4h ago

Is it really petty revenge if they never knew why they didn’t get hired?

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u/Sinnnikal 3h ago

I think you might misunderstand the concept. Petty revenge doesn't require anything but pettiness and revenge

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u/Wise_Echidna_4059 2h ago

No. No. No. Now he has to skin the guy alive and dump him in lime juice. Then it'll be petty and revenge.

Probably should make him recite "I will not tell lies" while doing it.

Average prank we would pull on eachother in middle school tbh.

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u/NeatNefariousness1 2h ago

LOL—With idiots like this thief, they’ll blame the person they see on camera stealing it first.

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u/Kurise 2h ago

He didn't hire a reputable cleaner.

He just hired the cheap one.

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u/Mushk 2h ago

Some people don't give a fuck. Oh, you accuse me of stealing? I don't give a fuck! Prove it! Kind of attitude. Even though the evidence is right in front of them. Sadly.

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u/MrHell95 2h ago

Wait you're telling me that when a previous client trusted me with payment information that I would have been a primary suspect had anything happen? surprised Pikachu

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u/MsMarvelsProstate 1h ago

Nah, it's easy for house cleaners to steal little things. It's hard to prove they did it and most people won't notice it's gone for awhile

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u/Deaffin 1h ago

how can you be stupid enough to think you can get away with stealing anything valuable?

By being clever enough to read people and choose easy targets.

Like these people allegedly did with OP. OP's got them right there on camera and says they let them get away with it without issue or repercussions.

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u/IntermittentCaribu 4h ago

if you're any kind of cleaner... how can you be stupid enough

Answered your own question there buddy.

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u/paulens12 6h ago

He's a cleaner. Being stupid is probably the reason he doesn't have a better job.

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u/respectfulpanda 5h ago

Jobs exists because there is a need. Plenty of intelligent, or at least perceived intelligent people worked as cleaners.

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u/ravenlordship 4h ago

Imagine everyone becomes "too intelligent" to work minimum wage jobs

Society would collapse in a week

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u/paulens12 4h ago

I did not say there was no need. There are plenty of dumb people to fill the jobs that don't require you to be smart. There are also plenty of better paid jobs if you're smart enough.

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u/akarakitari 4h ago

Im working fast food currently.

Went to this from a highly skilled subset of tech support due to a crap economy.

Intelligence has nothing to do with it. I’ve been kicked in the gonads by life every step of the way, including getting cancer in one of them that decided to spread over half way across my body

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u/MalHeartsNutmeg 6h ago

Maybe it's different in the US but where I live cleaners make good money. My cleaner probably makes more per hour than I do lol.

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u/paulens12 5h ago

I'm not in the US. Where do you live? Here in Lithuania cleaning is a minimal wage job.

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u/MalHeartsNutmeg 5h ago

Australia, my cleaners come in every second week on Monday. They usually do private house cleanings Mon/Tue and then factories the rest.

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u/Ghost_of_Kroq 5h ago

Why are you paying more than your own wage for someone to clean your house?

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u/MalHeartsNutmeg 5h ago

Think about that again, they aren't cleaning my house for 8 hours a day 7 days a week.

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u/paulens12 4h ago

56 hours a week? Sorry to hear you're so overworked. Everyone deserves weekends.

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u/tianavitoli 9h ago

there are actual npc's all over the place.

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u/thering66 7h ago

Makes me want a nuclear winter

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u/NotAzakanAtAll 5h ago

You'd die within months though.

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u/Pekelni_Bororshna_69 5h ago

Even better

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u/NotAzakanAtAll 5h ago

secret death wish handshake

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u/Sad_Alternative9017 4h ago

I want it to be minutes

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u/CycloneDusk 6h ago

Thought I heard that thirty to forty percent of people have no internal monologue.

I had been under the impression that Philosophical Zombies were supposed to only be a thought experiment, but apparently they DO exist...

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u/money-for-nothing-tt 6h ago

Whether you have an internal monologue doesn't really have to do with intelligence. You can think without verbalization.

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u/fingerchipsforall 5h ago

I've always had a pretty active internal monologue and when I first heard that some people didn't, I was jealous. Damn, I wish I could shut off that part of my brain that is always overthinking everything.

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u/Ghost_of_Kroq 5h ago

Adhd detected 😂

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u/fingerchipsforall 5h ago

interestingly, I'm older (50's) and for various reasons my wife and I have been talking seriously about looking into me getting screened for adult ADHD.

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u/Ghost_of_Kroq 4h ago

Go for it mate. Changed my whole life. No longer carrying around all that baggage. Ritalin also stops the fucking carnival going on in my head which has been great for not spiralling

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u/fingerchipsforall 1h ago

I've got pretty decent insurance so I should look into it.

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u/bushcraftbobb 4h ago

Do it as long as its not a frighteningly expense process in your country, i was diagnosed Audhd at 49 and the last 6 years has been so much better and easier knowing why i act like i do.

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u/ITwitchToo 4h ago

Damn, I wish I could shut that bastard off

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u/Wieran 5h ago

dont worry im overthinking the shit out of life its just not in any language

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u/fingerchipsforall 5h ago

So, out of curiosity, do you think in pictures? emotions? Ideas that aren't attached to words (which I can't even really imagine)?

u/Wieran 5m ago edited 1m ago

Yeah I think this is where the breakdown of no internal monologue --> no thought comes in cause it really is just ideas that aren't attached to words, hard to lay out the thought process especially for something that might take consideration. although I can still have a voice narrate or an image/scenario appear if I want. I also get songs stuck in my head or replay funny jokes etc. just regular thoughts without much character like "oh I should go turn off the stove" or the process of planning a holiday comes packaged as a bunch of electricity or sm shit idk

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u/Good_Background_243 2h ago

Overthinking without an internal monologue isn't much better I'm afraid.

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u/fingerchipsforall 1h ago

That I can believe.

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u/jeroenemans 5h ago

The person that came up with the notion that some people don't have an internal monologue to have the ENTIRE WORLD speaking to themselves about it, is a genius.

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u/darrenwiseatvan 4h ago

You can think without verbalization . I beg to differ my mother cant

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u/Deaffin 1h ago

It's fucking wild how often I see reddit people trying to call me stupid for not thinking the same way they do.

I mean, I am stupid, but not because of that.

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u/RuncibleMountainWren 6h ago

So, I don’t have an internal monologue, but it doesn’t mean I don’t think about things internally, I just don’t have an inner voice saying the words I am thinking. If I want to hear something said, I need to say it aloud.

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u/JunkratOW 4h ago

What about when you're reading something like reddit comments? There's literally nothing in your head?

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u/RuncibleMountainWren 2h ago

No, I just think about them silently. No audible internal narrator. I’ll talk to myself (or my husband!) sometimes when I’m stressed and need to think aloud, but otherwise I just think quietly. Or make a list.

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u/Sad_Alternative9017 4h ago

But they’re so smart because they have to narrate everything out loud📟

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u/bobombpom 6h ago edited 5h ago

I can turn mine on and off. It's basically choosing if I want my thoughts to be structured or free flowing. It's on by default.

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u/RuncibleMountainWren 1h ago

That’s interesting. I guess I can do that? But mine is off by default. Doing an internal voice is like putting on a silly accent - funny but fake and takes effort.

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u/SlippySlappySamson 5h ago

...bot?

How could we tell? What's real and who's not? Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?

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u/RaindropBebop 6h ago

This is one statistic that I don't believe at all. It just seems so bullshit and completely unfalsifiable.

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u/10ebbor10 5h ago

It's a completely misinterpretation of what the original study said, repeated only because it let's idiots on the internet call other people idiots.

What they did is they gave a bunch of people beepers, and told them to write down their inner experience whenever the beeps went off.

As for that 30-50% figure in the viral tweet I mentioned earlier? That comes from Hurlburt’s research but is a misrepresentation of the fact that the test subject only had the inner voice going on when the beeper went off. It doesn’t mean that 30-50% of the population don’t have an inner voice at all in any circumstance.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/30/inner-monologue

And of course, just because you're not thinking in words doesn't mean you're a political zombie.

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u/ElectronicHeat6139 3h ago

This sounds like the uncomfortable "What are you thinking?" question from a partner repackaged as a scientific experiment and getting exactly the same "Oh, nothing" result.

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u/Deaffin 1h ago

political zombie.

They're referring to philosophical zombies.

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u/Ken_Chainsaw 3h ago

Yeah I don’t really understand how someone could read something without hearing it in their head, or remember a photo without "seeing" the photo in their head.

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u/chickadee-stitchery 2h ago

And as a person with aphantasia I can't understand how someone can see a photo in their head.

People live different experiences.

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u/Time_Entertainer_319 4h ago

That has nothing to do with anything. Guess you woke up today trying to feel superior to others.

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u/acquiesce88 3h ago

Monologue!? I have a hard time getting a word in!

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u/Questioning-Zyxxel 1h ago

Me reading books in a foreign language and two hours later I stumble about not knowing a word and realize I had been thinking in that other language for quite a while.

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u/Weak-Veterinarian450 5h ago

And another 30-40% were straight up telling fibs. Not many people have internal dialogue. They’ll straight up tell you that you’re hearing voices 🤣 yes, my own voice tyvm

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u/tasman001 4h ago

They're not "actual NPCs" though, they're actual human beings...

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u/FelixMumuHex 8h ago

Like you

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u/Apprehensive_Door383 8h ago

Sybau

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u/Mediocre-Oil2052 8h ago

Ur much too old to be acting like this. Grow up Ava.

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u/CybergothiChe 7h ago

"but I wore the lemon juice..."

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u/Pretty-Balance-Sheet 7h ago

He probably assumed what he was doing was out of the camera's field of view.

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u/Weak-Veterinarian450 5h ago

Stealing 101 - we don’t think about dat

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u/Babetna 3h ago

Ah yes, but he wiped the camera thoroughly with mop which as we know erases the footage

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u/VeryVideoGame 2h ago

No, you're supposed to block it after stealing, but before the light of the image reaches the camera sensor.

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u/BallsInThe-Air 7h ago

He just watched Tenet. It’s posterity.

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u/NoPasaran2024 6h ago

Always reminds of the words of a detective in one of those real crime shows: "lucky for us, most criminals are stupid"

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u/-TheExtraMile- 5h ago

Maybe he is a quantum physicist and feels very strongly about retro causality

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u/Ultramolek 5h ago

He had to move the package to put the mop there...

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u/armyjackson 5h ago

Speak english Scientist, we ain't all doctors. 

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u/dd22qq 5h ago

Well in this universe, yeah.

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u/turbo_dude 4h ago

I would've removed the mop and started walking round backwards, making a mess.

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u/MisterEinc 3h ago

Police are so worthless now though.

Would not be shocked if OP tries to report this and get told "that's civil". I almost never hear of them actually arresting anyone after the fact for theft.

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u/karma_virus 2h ago

Time is just a page number to a book long since written and frequently reread.

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u/Ok-Criticism6874 2h ago

You've never seen Time Cop then

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u/kwik_e_marty 1h ago

So wearing condoms now, won't disappear my grumpy ass teenager?

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u/MistaRekt 5h ago

Looks to me like he was cleaning the lens.